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Recent Examples of geysersMany acidic geysers break down the rock that forms a geyser, but the acidity at Echinus is not strong enough to eat away at the surrounding stone.—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026
These are what Brown calls paint sprays and spray threes, two of Brown’s foundational principles of the new-look, high-octane Knicks offense.
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Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
4 Jan. 2026
To make new plantings a little more pest-proof, experiment with repellent sprays, like putrid egg solids, hot pepper spray, and humanely sourced predator spray.
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Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 Nov. 2025
Three American fighter jets were mistakenly downed by friendly Kuwaiti fire in the first days of the conflict in the midst of an Iranian air assault.
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Aamer Madhani,
Fortune,
31 Mar. 2026
China has increasingly used drones to pressure Taiwan, including reportedly deploying attack drones produced from fighter jets to bases near the Taiwan Strait.
Sperm whales communicate via bursts of clicks, called codas, and the researchers—part of a project called the Cetacean Translation Initiative, or CETI—are hoping one day to decipher what the codas mean.
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Elizabeth Kolbert,
New Yorker,
26 Mar. 2026
And Falkous, for all that his bursts of mad atonality hit the ear first, knows precisely where to hammer in every syllable for the maximum impact.
Denying that their output is propaganda & amplifying their messaging spits in the face of those murdered on Oct 7th & props up the Hamas terror regime that continues to punish its own people.
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Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
27 Aug. 2025
Naked people are collared, bound, prodded, whipped, ridden like horses, roasted over spits.
These secondary blasts added to the scale of destruction and raised concerns about the extent of damage in the area.
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Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
31 Mar. 2026
Eventually, amid depth-charge bass blasts and Spikeheart’s death-metal growls, a beat assembles itself, at first vaguely trap-like, then closer in spirit to UK funky.